Those who the gods would make rich and famous on TV, they first drive mad.
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.
We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
Why did Mama say that? Had Papa made her angry again? He made her angry a lot. Gran said it was on account of his "hores. " One time Celia asked Nurse what a hore was, and Nurse paddled her and told her that was a bad word. Then why did Papa have them?
Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
we train for war and fight to win.
One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.